Qelbinur Sedik was making breakfast when the video call came, and the sight of her sister's name made her nervous. Many months had passed since the two had spoken. In fact, many months had passed since Sedik had spoken to any of her family in China.Sedik was in the kitchen of her temporary home in the Netherlands, where she shared a room with several other refugees, mostly from Africa.

A 65-year-old Filipino immigrant was walking down a street near Times Square in New York, United States (US) when a man, in broad daylight, suddenly kicked her in the stomach.She crumpled to the sidewalk. He kicked her once in the head. Then again. And again. He yelled an obscenity at her, according to a police official, and then said, “You don’t belong here.”As the violent scene unfolded in Manhattan, three men watched from the lobby of a nearby luxury apartment building.

It was reported in February 2020 that some 900,000 pangolins were trafficked globally with significant proportions linked to Southeast Asia, while over 200 tonnes of African Elephant ivory and 100,000 Pig-nosed Turtles were seized in recent years. Whereas China, a year prior, saw a record number of wildlife seizures.

Cities around the world were turning off their lights on Saturday for Earth Hour, with this year's event highlighting the link between the destruction of nature and increasing outbreaks of diseases like COVID-19.Starting off the event, at 8:30 pm the skylines of Asian metropolises from Singapore to Hong Kong went dark, as did landmarks including Sydney Opera House. The annual event calls for action on climate change and the environment, and this year, organisers said they want t

Children around the world are not getting the nutrients they need, undermining their capacity to grow, develop and learn to their full potential.

A “plague” of the world’s most venomous spiders could swarm Sydney after torrential rain and flooding, the Australian Reptile Park said on Wednesday, warning that the deadly arachnids could seek refuge in homes as they escape the deluge.Relentless downpours have caused vast flooding in New South Wales state, with parts of suburban northwest Sydney still under water.Residents welcomed sunshine on Wednesday after days of rainfall, only to receive an “urgent warning” to brace for an influx of th

Every year, approximately 12 million girls aged between 15 to 19 years, and at least 777,000 girls under 15 years, give birth in developing regions of the world.In 2016, a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report stated that the Philippines has the highest number of teen pregnancies across Asia. Multiple partners and low condom use were some of the factors cited for the increase in birth rates.

It has been slightly more than a year since the COVID-19 virus emerged in Wuhan, China in 2019. The current health crisis has taken over 2.7 million lives since then and continues to infect thousands of people every day. While more than 400 million people have been vaccinated with coronavirus jabs, nations across the globe are still struggling to contain the deadly virus.

According to the United Nations (UN), the number of international migrants globally reached around 272 million in 2019 with women comprising slightly less than half of all migrants in that year at 48 percent.These women are normally employed in the care industry and most often are underpaid and certainly undervalued. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has reported that one of the significant reasons why the gender gap remains large is because care in most countries almost always

In April last year, Unyakarn Booprasert, a Thai cleaner, tried to commit suicide in front of the Ministry of Finance’s building with rat poison as a “protest”, as what she was going through “happened to many people.”“I completely ran out of money. I called my friends and relatives. Everyone had no money,” Booprasert explained.